Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Falenks of Manhattan went to the physicians' aid with something new to the U. S. Named "Gastro-Photo," it was a stomach camera invented in Vienna by F. G. Bach and Dr. D. J. Heilpern, already in use at the University of Vienna's Wenckel Bach Clinic...
From China last week came the photographic story of another war, †the Sino-Japanese quarrel over what is now Manchukuo. Compiled by Dr. Joseph Yu. head of Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
...story turns back several years. Nicole, daughter of a millionaire Chicago widower, is brought by her father to a Swiss clinic for mental cases. The doctor discovers that her insanity is the result of incest with her father. Dick, an ambitious specialist in psychiatry, is a friend of the doctor's, takes an interest in Nicole's case. In psychoanalyst patter, she "makes a transference" to Dick-i. e., falls in love with him. When her doctor advises Dick that he has done the patient all the good he can and should "break the transference" by going away...
After Nicole's breakdown in Paris, Dick accepts an offer of a partnership in a Swiss clinic of his own. Nicole seems better but Dick cannot get Rosemary out of his head. Several years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes...
...Mayo Clinic's Dr. E. C. Kendall was interested in another gland, the adrenal. When a derangement cuts off its flow of hormone, its possessor turns yellow, grows weak, wastes away. Called Addison's disease, this rare ailment was ordinarily fatal until physicians learned to supply the needed hormone from animal sources. But obtainable hormone is scarcer than the disease, and many a victim has died for lack of it. Last week Dr. Kendall reported that Mayo Clinic has isolated the hormone in pure crystalline form, analyzed its chemical composition. With this knowledge chemists may be able...